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During the PPC Challenge 2024, I worked on 15 desktops, performing upgrades, fixes, and general use. For PPC Challenge 2025, I intend to work on laptops I have acquired. Prepping SSDs now.

I have purchased some 2.5" mSATA to IDE adapters that were full size with cover for about $12. I also have some cheaper $4 ones without covers, so I printed my own trays to mount them.





I have 14 PPC laptops: 2x 3400c almost like new, an Aluminum PowerBook G4 12" that is pretty banged up, and 11x various iBook G3/G4 12" units in disrepair. I purchased a few different lots of parts machines to fix up some others, but it looks like most will be salvageable/functional. All the G3/G4 models seem to work fine with these adapters (and AppleTVs as well). The two 3400c do not work with these adapters, so waiting for some CF-IDE adapters to arrive.

Happy Grav-mass!

Just a few traces

Making a list of possible projects to do for PPC Challenge 2025

iBook G3: hinge, backlight, ram, SSD
iBook G4: Ram, SSD
PowerBook G4: backlight, Ram, SSD, straighten frame
imacG3: ram upgrade
3x iBook G4 parts plus complete shell: test and build a working one, battery rebuild
3x Siil3114 cards: flash firmware to MAC
G3/G4 AGP video cards, fix and test
G5 PCI video cards, fix and test
4x G5 towers, retest, fix
G4 ZIF 500 for B&W, probe/test/fix
MDD fix
G3/G4 SCSI cards swap
G3/G4 USB cards swap
Check all CMOS batteries
Cube speakers rebuild (diaphragm)
iFire DIY amps for pro speakers
EtherWave, test 3 printers

A new project....

Hi from NYC. I just picked up a Quadra 700 and am looking to build some things with Think C.

After one year of being dead due to a bad analog board and putting a good working replacement analog board and a good PSU my 800k Macintosh SE is alive once again

Hi Tinkerers, I'm new here and I like messing with old macs. Some of the machines I have are, 2004 G4 Powerbook, 2005 G4 Mac Mini, 2 of 2012 Macbook Pros, 2019 Macbook Pro, 2007 iMac Core Duo, 2013 8 core Mac Pro, 2 of 30 inch Apple Cinema Displays, 23 inch ACD, 20 inch ACD. Plus also 2 modern displays and a powerful Hackintosh. Also a brand new in the box 2006 1,1 Intel Mac Mini, which may I add that I paid to much for.

Sorry for the long rant.

Gave my Mac SE SuperDrive a nice BlueSCSI upgrade and so far it's fantastic and I'm loving it so far

The original 40mb Quantum ProDrive still works and thankfully I have backed it up alongside with that 160mb Conner drive that stopped working sadly

It's curious the level of vitriol and hate directed towards TD sometimes - with no clear reason as to why.

We seem to live rent free in some people's heads...

Hi Fred

I am trying to run a MacintoshPi on a 9.7" 1024x768 Display and configure the correct overscan to reduce the used screen canvas size but do not succeed.

While googling, I found your article here:

As I understand it, you somehow managed it to configure the overscan correctly? I am trying for hours now and can't figure out how to do it. While running CMD or PIOS, the overscan is applied correctly, but when running MacOS 7/8/9, it just ignores the settings and uses the full size of the screen.

Do you think you can help me here? What configuration files did you edit and with which settings?

Thanks for any help and best regards
Lukas

Love the avatar icon!

Apple Tv Gen 1 Downgrade Guide out now!
Here

Hello everyone,
If you are interested in learning about downgrading your iPhone 2G to iOS 1.x or 1.x.x along with your gen one Apple Tv to 1.x Let me know!

Hello everyone,

I am using a Macintosh SE with a BlueSCSI internal board. I have put a ready-made MacOS on its SD card, and the SE boots from it. My problem now: even if I use the Toolbox BlueSCSI provides, I cannot unstuff software into this OS image, even if I have Stuffit Expander there. It might be the wrong version of Stuffit Expander. But how can I find out which one is the correct one? Or should I unstuff the software on a Mac (because of resource forks) and put it in the Toolbox's 'shared' folder and try to copy it onto my image?

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. It seems that I am missing something here...

BuriedBits.org, since 2020

PURPOSE
-Mining Macintosh and Atari 8-bit files
-Sources include archive.org/Wayback Machine

ACCESS
-FTP/HTTP: buriedbits.org
-Atari FujiNet: fuji.buriedbits.org

Also I went to check if my 800k Mac SE still had the battery on it's logic board and thankfully the old owner did remove it

I will have to get the Mac fixed since it no longer turns on (only makes weird unhappy noises no chime at all)
I'm suspecting the analog board is faulty since smoke came out of it when it was still running back in mid- September of 2023

Bought a "daystar digital 105013-109 33 Mhz Card 01-FC040-001" off eBay, this is a 68040 PDS L2 cache, right?

She’s seen better days…

Finally debombed my Mac SE SuperDrive

Thankfully the battery which is a Maxwell didn't leak or explode inside of the computer
I installed the MacBatt CR2032 adapter with a brand new CR2032 battery